hey everyone it's James from fun foods and today I want to show you how to make
these salted caramel peanut butter bars this dessert is absolutely incredible
and I want to thank Georgia peanuts for sponsoring this video as well as send me
a package, a huge package of all the goodies and I used a lot of it to make
this dessert so keep watching and I'll show you step by step how to make this
the first thing we need to do is preheat our oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit get
that ready next we need a large bowl which I have right here and inside this
bowl I have this Georgia grinders peanut butter this is organic peanut butter and
I'm gonna use 12 ounces of this and let's smell this oh my gosh it smells
amazing so I'm gonna use this whole jar in here and to that I want to add one
and a half cups of sugar 2 large eggs and I'm gonna use this peanut flour here
I'm gonna use 1/4 a cup of that 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract it just mix
all the ingredients together I'm using a hand mixer you can do it by hand if you
like
now just clean off your beaters next I'm gonna add 1/2 a cup of peanut butter
chips this is just gonna add some more peanut butter flavor to our peanut
butter bars here now just move this aside and I'm bringing out my dish that
I'm gonna bake it in now this dish is a seven and a half by 11 inch dish you can
use a 9 by 13 but if you do that the peanut butter bars will be a little
thinner I want to be thicker so I just have some butter in here some softened
butter now just take this and dish it out and spread it nice and even
now just take this put this in your preheated oven at 350 degrees for
anywhere between 10 and 15 minutes I'll let you know at the end how long it
takes mine to get done okay so it took a lot longer than I was expecting but
that's what happens when you're experimenting with recipes so it took
about 28 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees to bake it and how I know it's
done you can see around the edges it's a little darker and browned we got to let
this cool down completely before we move on to the next step
so for the next step we're gonna make our homemade caramel sauce now it's very
simple to do this and by the way do you say caramel or caramel right in the
comments below let me know and we're gonna start off with a large medium
sized heavy bottomed pan and to that I'm going to add 1 cup of sugar just regular
granulated sugar and 1/4 a cup of water we're gonna bring this over to the stove
and stir it until all that sugar has dissolved and just stir this up until
all that sugar has dissolved okay so when you see that the water has become
clear that means all the water or the sugar has dissolved we're gonna stop
stirring at this point boil until you see it start to turn color so after a
couple minutes you'll notice around the edges that's starting to turn copper in
color we're going to add a half a stick which is four tablespoons of butter and
whisk that in
when all the butter has melted let it boil for about one minute now turn off
your heat and we're gonna stir in 1/2 a cup of heavy cream slowly alright so
after a couple of minutes of whisking you'll notice it's still quite runny
that's okay as it cools down it will thicken up we gotta add in a teaspoon of
salt now if you use salted butter you can skip this step but I did not so at
this point let this sit and rest until it thickens up when our caramel cool
down enough I transferred it into a mason jar and I did that because
whatever I don't use I can store and use it at another recipe so we're gonna take
that set that aside for right now and we're gonna come back to the same heavy
bottomed pan which I cleaned out a little bit and we're gonna add to that
two tablespoons of butter bring this over to the stove and we're gonna melt
that butter down so now just turn on your heat to medium high and melt the
butter alright so as soon as it's melted we just want to add a ten ounce package
of mini marshmallows to it and mix it up
just keep mixing the whole time until the Marshmallows become a liquid now we
have to work quickly here our peanut butter base has done and what I'm going
to do is add in some caramel not all of it just a little bit of this caramel
it's thickened up that's good a thin layer just spread it around
there we go and make sure you save the rest cuz we're gonna need that in a
little bit now we're gonna bring in our marshmallows that we melted down and
that's gonna go right over top the caramel try to get a nice even layer of
that now it should have pretty much leveled itself out but you can move it
around a little bit if you want to get better coverage now I'm going to let
that cool down completely before we top it off with some caramel sauce and some
Georgia peanuts now what we're gonna do is mix in some peanuts to our caramel
sauce and I'm only going to use about half of the remaining caramel sauce and
about four bags of these Georgia peanuts so you can just put those into a
container and I already have some in there take about half of your caramel
sauce here and pour that in I'm not measuring it but roughly about three
teaspoons I would guess three tablespoons more like it and just mix
this up with the peanuts now that those peanuts are all covered that's good
let's move these aside bring in our dessert dish that's done and it should
have firmed up nicely and now what we're going to do is just take these and scoop
some out and just spread them out
and for the extra caramel sauce all we have to do is drizzle that over the rest
now these look amazing I can't wait to try it out I'm just gonna cut them up
into serving sizes all right so now we're just gonna cut these into
manageable pieces I'm gonna try this with some nonstick spray and maybe that
will keep it from sticking to the knife that's better
our part is gonna be getting these out of here well now it's time for the taste
test I'm gonna dig into one of these and see how it tastes
now just to warn you it is tough cutting these into perfect squares because the
marshmallow is so sticky
mm-hmm this is amazing
now when it comes to presentation they may not look the best but they taste the
best for sure so give them a try well thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed
watching me make these salted caramel peanut butter bars now these are
absolutely incredible it may not present as good as other
peanut butter bars but they taste far better than anything that you'll ever
try so trust me on that I also want a big send a big thank you to Georgia
peanuts for sending me these peanuts and a whole bunch of other products and
sponsoring this video if you want to learn more about them hit the link in
the description and learn about Georgia peanuts and until then I'll see you guys
next time 1/4 a cup of peanut flour let's do this
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